Handbook of archaeology, Egyptian - Greek - Etruscan - Roman (1867)
Westropp, Hodder M. (Hodder Michael), -1884 · London, Bell and Daldy · leaf 218
sitting. Lachesis is also to be foundwriting, or holding a roll; Atropos showing the hour on a sundial,or holding scales. Tyche.—Fortune.She is usually represented with a rudder, as guiding the affairs ofthe world, and a cornucopia as a symbol of the plentiful gifts ofnature, and also with a ball… … FORTUNE. Statues :— Fortune, Vatican.Fortune, British Museum. Nemesis. In the earlier times, Nemesis was scarcely to be distinguishedfrom the representations of Aphrodite. So slight was the distinctionbetween the representations of Nemesis and Aphrodite, that Agora-critus, the sculptor, in losing…
Art, Ancient · Archaeology
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